* Of the many excellent jazz musicians to have come out of the West Midlands scene in the last decade or so, one of the most interesting and talented is, to my ears, Shabaka Hutchings.Read
I’m getting a bit worried about calendars and diaries and clashes. The jazz scene in Birmingham is a healthy one but it’s not particularly big, and so it seems unfortunate that, for example, Friday and Tuesday evenings seem to have become popular.Read
After a relatively quiet couple of weeks in Birmingham, this is something of a bumper week for jazz, with two major trios visiting the city for two unmissable gigs.Read
He wrote Blues In The Night, Get Happy, That Old Black Magic, the song that Frank Sinatra made his own, One For My Baby, and the one Judy Garland made hers, Over The Rainbow.Read
Do you have some friends who find it difficult to share your love of jazz because they find it too sedate? Do they need a bit more rock ‘n’ roll energy in their live music?Read
Clearly jazz musicians like chocolate with a yellow and white fondant filling more than they like gigging. It’s Easter and some of the regular venues are dark, while the players go for that sugar rush.Read
“Happy birthday to you,” is never sung with quite such a sense of style and swing at any other time of the year, or with such respect and warmth. Yes, the veteran Birmingham saxophonist Andy Hamilton is celebrating again.Read
Thursday night, you have three choices. Out at Andy Hamilton’s Bearwood Corks Club you get the musical equivalent of the mobile health clinic, although on offer on this occasion is a harp-driven cure for the blues. Read
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